US Emergency Declared After Cyber ​​Criminals Lower 45% Of East Coast Gas Provide – Watts That?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Climate activists in New York and other east coast cities may have the opportunity to realize their fossil-fuel-free dream as Colonial Pipeline operators struggle to repair damage from a cyberattack that shut down the pipeline on May 7th Has.

The US declares the emergency after ransomware shuts down the oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons every day

Oil transport by road is permitted after the Colonial Pipeline failure. The operator states that the restore is in progress but does not offer a restore date

Simon Sharwood, APAC editor
Monday, May 10, 2021 // 00:15 UTC

One of the largest oil pipelines in the United States was shut down by ransomware, prompting the country’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to issue a regional emergency statement allowing fuel to be transported by road.

The Colonial Pipeline carries 100 million gallons of refined fuel every day between Houston, Texas and the port of New York, or 45 percent of all fuel used on the US East Coast. The pipeline transports fuel for cars and trucks, jet fuel and heating oil.

It has been offline since May 7, according to a company statement due to what the outfit called “… a cybersecurity attack.” [that] contains ransomware. “

It added, “In response, we have proactively taken certain systems offline to contain the threat that has temporarily halted all pipeline operations and affected some of our IT systems.”

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Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/colonial_pipeline_ransomware/

As a software professional, my first thought is that someone who enables business-critical control systems to connect to the Internet should probably consider another career. But maybe I’m unfair. Even the most carefully isolated systems can be undone if a careless employee or contractor connects their infected laptop to an internal network.

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